3D subband video coding provides an elegant fulldimensional solution for scalable video coding. However, due to the Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF) with open-loop structure and no good rate distortion optimization trade-off between the texture coding and overhead coding of the corresponding mode and motion vectors within narrow bandwidth, its performance is unsatisfactory at low bi...

The desired gap headway of drivers, while close following, represents the main parameter in determining the following distance between vehicles.  This paper uses the raw individual vehicles data taken from loop detectors for millions of vehicles used M25 and M42 in order to estimate the gap headway distributions between successive pairs of vehicles.  The data used in this paper were filtered so...

In a global economy, an efficient supply chain as a main core competency empowers enterprises to provide products or services at the right time in the right quantity, at a low cost. This paper is to plan a single product, multi-echelon, multi-period closed loop supply chain for high-tech products (which have continuous price decrease). Ultimately, considering components rated to procurement, pr...

planning robot trajectory is a complex task that plays a significant role in design and application of robots in task space. the problem is formulated as a trajectory optimization problem which is fundamentally a constrained nonlinear optimization problem. open-loop optimal control method is proposed as an approach for trajectory optimization of cable parallel manipulator for a given two-end-po...

This work deals with the passive tracking of the pose of a close-range 3-D modeling device using its own high-rate images in realtime, concurrently with customary 3-D modeling of the scene by laser triangulation. Our former works in Refs. [1,2] successfully implemented visual pose tracking. Accuracy being a central requirement to 3-D modeling, however, here we note that accuracy can be further ...

The optimization of a controlled flapping wing micro aerial vehicle for energy-efficient flight in gust using a general, service-oriented framework is investigated. Kinematic (wing-stroke pattern), geometric (wing shape), frequency, and control (state penalty) design variables are considered in a sequence of optimization problems. The service-oriented framework is applied to the integration of ...